Non-Markovian dynamics without using quantum trajectory

Chengjun Wu, Yang Li, Mingyi Zhu, Hong Guo

Published 2009-12-04, updated 2011-01-23Version 2

Open quantum system interacting with structured environment is important and manifests non- Markovian behavior, which was conventionally studied using quantum trajectory stochastic method. In this paper, by dividing the effects of the environment into two parts, we propose a deterministic method without using quantum trajectory. This method is more efficient and accurate than stochastic method in most Markovian and non-Markovian cases. We also extend this method to the generalized Lindblad master equation.